Bejoe Kap

The BaaS concept, where customers buy the car and lease the battery via a subscription, is gaining ground worldwide as nations are pushing for green energy mission.

Canadians have become the first in the world to take to the street to get rid of the fatigue and division created by government overreach to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.

For the proposed decarbonized global economy, battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) are the next big thing.

Vladimir Putin stopped Russia from dancing to Washington's tunes 14 years ago and the Pivot to Asia policy turned topsy-turvy for the US. Now the US is out in the open to teach Russia a lesson with NATO as its flag-bearer.

More than 40 nations have achieved success with Fifth Generation – 5G, the most essential tool of postmodern life, rollout.

Pakistan's inconsistent growth rate, rising debt payments, increasing current account and fiscal deficits, and poor security scenario are giving sleepless nights to its premier literally.

Reckless finance is nothing new. Under its monopolistic rule, Wall Street makes merry while main streets suffer and the new inequality is different because today's rich do not exploit the poor, they just outcompete them.

Six years into the Yemen war and the loss of tens of thousands of innocent Yemenis, the Saudi-led coalition which backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government against the Houthis in the civil war, is going for tit-for-tat.

The focus of this year’s five-day World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda Virtual Summit, commencing Jan. 17, will be how solutions are put into practice swiftly.

Russia’s commodity-driven economy is on the brink of panic due to the elements of uncertainty that the Kremlin can’t afford to ignore.

Whenever the “new normal” is achieved by nations across the world, the global supply chain network will not look the same and will operate differently than the one the pandemic has uprooted.

Predominantly driven by China, Asia has made stellar progress in solar energy production.

The last nuclear power plant in Germany will cease to operate in December 2022 so that the EU nation will no longer have to live with the fear of a nuclear power holocaust.

The major problem facing the cash-starved Sri Lanka in South Asia is how to pay $4.8 billion foreign debt being due during February-October 2022.

For the ‘cultural genocide’, spanning more than a century on the native people, the Canadian government has started to cough up compensation.

At a time when China is accusing the US of unilateralism, will Beijing unilaterally break an international accord on its premier Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) which is also the financial hub of Asia?

In a nation rife with military coups, resignation is not a surprise but neither is the resistance.

The French Rafale is the talk of the town as the most sought-after fighter jet. Takers for Dassault Rafale are on the rise with Serbia becoming the latest entrant in the market for heavyweight fighters to achieve aerial superiority.

Israel is beefing up its expansion into the disputed Golan Heights as Syria has turned into a pariah state and the US and the world community needed the Jewish state to make a breakthrough in the ongoing Iran nuclear talks.

In a decisive shift towards a de facto recognition, neighboring Asian nations are courting Myanmar’s military, assuming the junta to stay in power for a foreseeable future.

As tension increases with the West over Ukraine and on NATO’s eastward expansion, Russian President Vladimir Putin proved pro-Islam and got a shot in the arm.

Sticking to its 2018 India First policy, Maldives has rejected attempts to spread the “India Out” campaign, backed by the opposition, through the media and social media platforms.

Riding on global wealth bloom attributed to the higher asset prices, China has surpassed the U.S. as the richest nation in the world.

India has started receiving advance elements of the state-of-the-art S-400 air defence system from Russia ahead of President Vladimir Putin's visit to the country in December.

The simmering migrant crisis between Belarus and Poland intensifies with the involvement of Russia and NATO.

By supporting the Taliban to take over the reign in Afghanistan, Pakistan not only managed to crawl out of the isolation in the international community but was also able to find itself an important place at the negotiation table.

The southern Indian city of Chennai, once known with sobriquet the 'Detroit of Asia', is facing the fury of the northeast monsoon after a gap of six years again.